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ALLUVIUM
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Irregular inflected form: alluvia
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down
Synonyms:
alluvial deposit; alluvial sediment; alluvion; alluvium
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("alluvium" is a kind of...):
deposit; sediment (matter that has been deposited by some natural process)
Meronyms (substance of "alluvium"):
alluvial soil (a fine-grained fertile soil deposited by water flowing over flood plains or in river beds)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "alluvium"):
delta (a low triangular area of alluvial deposits where a river divides before entering a larger body of water)
placer (an alluvial deposit that contains particles of some valuable mineral)
Derivation:
alluvial (of or relating to alluvium)
